Although the military base is on rented land, the US had "complete jurisdiction and control" at Guantanamo Bay and therefore the courts had jurisdiction, a majority of the judges decided.

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West sold the cattle and rented the land for farming.

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Mr. MOHAMMED: (Through translator) The land is now rented by large landowners who rent out this land that we used to rent out at a much lower price before that we could afford and where we could grow wheat and fodder for our cows and sheep.

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Yarnell and his family lived just below us on some land he rented from the bank.

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In areas where there is a high current demand for rented housing, the report says land could be made available to developers on the grounds that a proportion of the homes built be let out to tenants.

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Land-grabbers who rented government plots illegally to fly-by-night shops, taking money that belonged to the city. (Mr Hamidi would burst into such places with shovel in hand, pushing people aside, shouting at them to clear their rubbish away.) And, over all these, the swaggering local powerbrokers who demanded their share of the opium trade, the military contracts and the building projects, like boys fighting for candy at a wedding.

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